# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-42269"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-08-17T08:54:24.267Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T20:29:05.104Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:16.009Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-42269"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-42269.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-42269"
title: "netfilter: iptables: Fix potential null-ptr-deref in ip6table_nat_table_init()."
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfilter: iptables: Fix potential null-ptr-deref in ip6table_nat_table_init().\n\nip6table_nat_table_init() accesses net-\u003egen-\u003eptr[ip6table_nat_net_ops.id],\nbut the function is exposed to user space before the entry is allocated\nvia register_pernet_subsys().\n\nLet's call register_pernet_subsys() before xt_register_template()."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"fdacd57c79b79a03c7ca88f706ad9fb7b46831c1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"419ee6274c5153b89c4393c1946faa4c3cad4f9e"},{"version":"fdacd57c79b79a03c7ca88f706ad9fb7b46831c1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"91b6df6611b7edb28676c4f63f90c56c30d3e601"},{"version":"fdacd57c79b79a03c7ca88f706ad9fb7b46831c1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e85b9b6a87be4cb3710082038b677e97f2389003"},{"version":"fdacd57c79b79a03c7ca88f706ad9fb7b46831c1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"87dba44e9471b79b255d0736858a897332db9226"},{"version":"fdacd57c79b79a03c7ca88f706ad9fb7b46831c1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c22921df777de5606f1047b1345b8d22ef1c0b34"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15"},{"version":"5.15.165","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.104","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.45","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.10.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.10.*"},{"version":"6.11","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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